Economic sanctions imposed after Islamabad exploded an atomic bomb still dog the economy.

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First of all, it's as if someone took that plan and dropped an atomic bomb simply to make it more difficult.

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At Los Alamos, a remote outpost in New Mexico, Oppenheimer gathered the finest minds in physics to develop and design an atomic bomb.

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The Foreign Minister of the Marshall Islands, in the Pacific, says rising sea levels could annihilate his country "as effectively as an atomic bomb".

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It was like stopping the Nazis from building an atomic bomb.

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Notably, also on Wednesday, the US-based International Institute for Strategic Studies released a report concluding that Iran will have a sufficient quantity of highly enriched uranium to make an atomic bomb in a matter of months.

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Mr. Obama said on Israeli TV that the length of time it would take Tehran to develop an atomic bomb varies, but that it could be more than a year away from the decision to build one.

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Iraq maintains that it no longer has any such programmes, although one senior Iraqi official has all but admitted that the country came close to building an atomic bomb in 1991, at the time of the Gulf war.

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He had stories dating back to before some of his admirers were born, such as the time in 1939 when he and Leo Szilard, another Hungarian scientist, persuaded Albert Einstein to write to President Roosevelt, urging the need to make an atomic bomb before the Germans did.

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In the view of this newspaper, one of those is preventing Mr Hussein, a proven sociopath, from acquiring an atomic or biological bomb, and so the ability to threaten or kill millions of people.

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What did happen was that the Enola Gay, an American B-29 bomber, dropped a uranium-based atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

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The first two days of the event will take place in Hiroshima, where participants will have the opportunity to visit the peace museum and to talk to atomic bomb survivors, and the other days in Etajima, an island about 30 minutes from Hiroshima.

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